Adding Beagle, tomboy and ifolder to Hoary

[Olafur Arason]

Microsoft is as likely to sue over OpenOffice.org or Gnome than mono,
it owns as many pattens on them. We can always drop it if somebody
sues. You also forget that GNU has an implementation of .Net when you
talk about Free with a big F. This is not a discussion about which
development enviroment is better Python or mono. This is about a
couple of great applications that are written in a language that has
an free as in speech development environment.

Beagle is not just an OpenOffice.org searcher, but that is an example
usecase that isn't addressed now. Beagle can search pretty much
everything like pdf, emails see http://gnome.org/projects/beagle for
the full list, plus has dynamic update so if you searched something
and still have the window open it updates the search result.

Olafur Arason

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:17:14 -0500, poptones <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> -And we would be the only one
> shiping it because Suse is going to ship it. There is alot of work
> going into it now. This would solve problems like user wanting to
> search OpenOffice.org documents. The only real reason not to ship it
> besides, mono is evil, is that there was a mention about requiring
> some processor power, but I we got a 600Mhz computer so if it will
> work for me it sould be enough for most users.-
> 
> You sound as if this is a done deal. But mono is still tied up in
> potentially litigious "property" and that would seem to defy one of the
> primary stated goals of ubuntu - to keep the distribution Free (with the
> big F).
> 
> If the aim of integrating beagle is simply to provide the ability to
> search openoffice docs and such, why can this functionality not be
> supplied by python hooks? I've never tried the python/c hooks, do they
> not work?
> 
> I realize I'm talking about reinventing the wheel here, but right now
> it's not as if the wheel is a Z rated state of the art pirelli or
> something - it's just little more than a rock, and lots of us have
> hammers and chisels.
> 
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